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'''Operation Fast and Furious''' was an [[Obama administration]] program, approved at the highest levels of the [[White House]],<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121706598.html White House delayed rule meant to stop gun flow to Mexico], Sari Horwitz and James V. Grimaldi, ''[[Washington Post]]'', December 17, 2010</ref> authorizing the illegal sale in the [[United States]] of high powered weapons, including assault rifles, to purchasers and intermediaries of Mexican [[drug cartels]].
'''Operation Fast and Furious''' was an [[Obama administration]] program, approved at the highest levels of the [[White House]],<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121706598.html White House delayed rule meant to stop gun flow to Mexico], Sari Horwitz and James V. Grimaldi, ''[[Washington Post]]'', December 17, 2010</ref> authorizing the illegal sale in the [[United States]] of high powered assault rifles and other firearms, to purchasers and intermediaries of Mexican [[drug cartels]].
A joint strike force of the [[United States Treasury Department]] [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms]], and the [[U.S. Justice Department]] was organized and funded to sell the [[guns used by Mexican drug gangs]] in the hopes criminal violence would spawn public support for the Obama administrations [[gun control]] policies.<ref>[http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-07-11.html#read_more]</ref> Thousands were killed - and continue to be killed - mostly in Mexico, by these weapons.
A joint strike force of the [[United States Treasury Department]] [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms]], and the [[U.S. Justice Department]] was organized and funded to sell the [[guns used by Mexican drug gangs]] in the hopes criminal violence would spawn public support for the Obama administrations [[gun control]] policies.<ref>[http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-07-11.html#read_more]</ref> Thousands were killed - and continue to be killed - mostly in Mexico, by these weapons.